As Nvidia launches an independent investigation amid company CEO Jensen Huang apologizing for his affair with a suspected Chinese spy, the scandal is shining the spotlight on Singapore-based cloud provider Megaspeed.
Huang’s paramour, Alice Huang, is reportedly an executive with Megaspeed, which is under fresh scrutiny after allegations that the company diverted Nvidia computer chips to China to evade a U.S. ban.
Reps for Megaspeed have denied any wrongdoing, claiming that inspections determined there had not been any violations
What is Megaspeed?
While the Nvidia CEO did not name Alice Huang by name in his apology, The New York Times has reported that U.S. intelligence officials believe her to be a Chinese intelligence asset.
As a result, her association with Megaspeed has thrown suspicion on the company, which sells access to computer resources hosted by data centers throughout Southeast Asia. Its customers are Asia Pacific-based companies that require massive amounts of computing capacity, typically for AI-related projects.
As CNBC reports, Megaspeed markets itself as a “core business partner” of Nvidia’s computing power cloud business in Southeast Asia, acting as a middleman to assist customers in renting Nvidia GPUs — “graphics processing units,” described as “specialized chips designed to do many calculations at the same time.”
Per CNBC, “The service allows businesses to complete costly AI operations without buying and operating all the hardware themselves. It can also give customers remote access to computing power from advanced chips located outside China. U.S. controls restrict the export of some advanced chips to China, but remote access is a separate question.”
Earlier Allegations
This isn’t the first time that Megaspeed — which is based in Singapore but also has offices in Indonesia — has been hit with that same allegation, of redirecting Nvidia GPUs to China.
A December 2025 Bloomberg report noted that the U.S. government had been investigating Megaspeed’s ownership structure to determine whether the company had previously been involved with smuggling Nvidia computer chips into China.
In response to Bloomberg’s article, Megaspeed issued a statement on its website claiming that the report contained “misleading information and incorrect insinuations.”
The statement also claimed that inspections undertaken by the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Commerce Department, the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry of Malaysia, and Nvidia had determined there had been “no evidence of any violations concerning the illicit transfer of chips or any illegal activities.”
Who Is Alice Huang?
According to a House Select Committee on China statement issued on November 5, Alice Huang is an “executive” at Megaspeed and a “publicly reported Chinese intelligence asset.”
The heads of that congressional committee have requested that Jensen Huang attend a briefing in Washington, D.C. on November 18. The goal is to determine “the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk” after reports about the Nvidia CEO’s affair raised “significant national security concerns regarding [China’s] access to sensitive U.S. technology and information.”
In addition, Bloomberg reports that Alice Huang (who also goes by the name Huang Le) was instrumental in helping to found Megaspeed in 2023, shortly after the Biden administration issued chip export bans targeting China in order to slow down Chinese breakthroughs in AI — particularly in military applications — by using American-made technology.
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